In a inappropriate country like Malaysia, people suffer more than with technology.
Though it is ideal to have all the nets and nets, how many Malaysians can ready know how to use the facilities.
Youngsters do not able to read English language well, the information in Malay is very much limited. This is how the government of Malaysia is controlling the people.
If the English as the second language is replaced with free choice to choose, the people would find their way to learn or not to learn a second language they like. This would improve the ability to read the outside sources.
Politicians in Malaysia, wake up.
It is,perhaps, the politicians are trying to control the people more than to help the people.
Do you agree?
On-the-ground, practical experiences with introducing and using new digital technologies in education systems around the world over the past two decades have led many to conclude that a 'second digital divide' has emerged, separating those with the skills and competencies to benefit from the use of these new technologies from those who are not benefitting, or not benefitting to the same extent. There can be little doubt that such a second divide exists, and that this divide, which is focused on theimpact of technology use, may well be more difficult to bridge than the original 'digital divide', which related primarily to access to technology. While in the end we are rightly concerned with outcomes, and impacts, inputs still matter. With this in mind, and with full acknowledgement that connectivity is not an end in itself, but rather a means to a larger end, it might be worth asking:
How many schools around the world are connected to the Internet?
Until recently we had little hard (or even soft) data to help us answer what would appear, on its face, to be a rather simple question. Things are improving in this regard, however. As it stands today, your best source of insight in this regard is probably a document with the delightfully bureaucratic title, Final WSIS Targets Review: Achievements, Challenges and the Way Forward, that you may have missed when it appeared last June. In case it may be of interest (a former boss of mine used to say: We pay you to read this stuff so that we don't have to!), I thought I'd take a quick look at it here.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/how-many-schools-are-connected-internet
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